Luis Venegas de Henestrosa

{{Short description|Spanish composer}}

Luis Venegas de Henestrosa (c. 1510{{spaced ndash}}1570) was a Spanish composer of the 16th century active during the Spanish Golden Age. Few details are known about his life and he is most remembered for publishing Libro de cifra nueva para tecla, Arpa y Vihuela, a collection of over two hundred pieces for harp, keyboard and vihuela.{{cite book|last=Pacheco|first=Cristina Diego|title=Charles Quint et la monarchie universelle|editor=Annie Molinié-Bertrand|publisher=Presses Paris Sorbonne|year=2001|chapter=La musique à l'époque de l'empereur. Un nouvel éclairage sur Luis Venegas de Henestrosa et le répertoire pour clavier|isbn=978-2-84050-189-3|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xxaE-7YvJHkC&pg=PA67}} The only two copies known to exist of this collection are kept at the Biblioteca Nacional de España in Madrid. The book contains a setting for organ of Conditor alme by Gracia Baptista, the earliest known keyboard work by a Spanish woman composer.{{cite book|author=Barbara Garvey Jackson|title=Say Can You Deny Me: A Guide to Surviving Music by Women from the 16th Through the 18th Centuries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wDTk2kD7U9UC&pg=PA44|year=1994|publisher=University of Arkansas Press|isbn=978-1-55728-303-0|pages=44–}}{{cite book|author1=Susan Forscher Weiss|author2=Russell E. Murray, Jr.|author3=Cynthia J. Cyrus|title=Music Education in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=81lhP9mblk0C&pg=PA275|date=16 July 2010|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0-253-00455-0|pages=275–}}